Long Black Veil

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Long Black Veil was fascinating—a thoughtful atmospheric thriller centered on Judith, a woman who has moved well past her troubled youth and created a good life and family in Maine, albeit based on a glaring omission.  But a body found in an abandoned Gothic prison in Philadelphia threatens everything. The twisting tale, split between an August night in 1980 that changed everything and its fallout in the present day, offers a mystery along with sensitive discourse on finding one’s truth and belonging.